The Economic Vibes Are Off
Kyla Scanlon
November 21, 2024
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<p>Kyla Scanlon is an economist, author, and influencer. She coined the term 'vibecession' in 2022 as a reference to the historically unprecedented mismatch between subjective consumer sentiment (or vibes) and more objective economic indicators like GDP, output, and wages. Scanlon wrote a subsequent book In This Economy?: How Money and Markets Really Work, which dove into the issue of vibes and economics, while at the same time serving as an excellent and modern economics explainer. Kyla and I had a fun and wide-ranging (if tech-interrupted) discussion about why the vibes are off and the challenges of using hard data versus being connected with the 'real world'.</p><br /><p>Originally recorded on 19th November, 2024.</p><hr /><p style="color: grey; font-size: 0.75em;"> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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